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比亚被废黜的领导人卡扎菲(Moammar Gadhafi)在自己的家乡苏尔特被利比亚部队击毙，这为该国在其42年的独裁统治后实施改革铺平了道路。苏尔特是卡扎菲生前据守的最后一个据点。据米苏拉塔军事委员会发言人巴沙格哈(Fathi Bashagha)说，卡扎菲在苏尔特遭枪击受伤，在前往米苏拉塔的路上死在救护车里。
巴沙格哈说，卡扎菲百分之百死了，我亲眼看到了他的尸体；卡扎菲的死对利比亚来说是最棒的消息，全世界都应该欢庆。
据巴沙格哈说，利比亚官员正在对他们认为的卡扎菲尸体进行DNA分析，以便证实尸体的身份。
卡扎菲政治生涯大事记
利比亚过渡政府领导人的支持者取得的胜利看来标志着长达八个月的武装起义已经结束了主要战斗，而多国部队对利比亚的空袭可能也即将结束。空袭帮助利比亚反抗武装击败了卡扎菲的部队。
卡扎菲的死讯在利比亚全国各地引发了欢腾的庆祝活动，在利比亚国民看来，这意味着在利比亚现代历史上大部分时间里用铁拳统治他们的独裁者已经不在了。
但卡扎菲的死亡给利比亚革命开启了一个新的不确定的篇章，也给各种政治力量带来了新的挑战。今年8月底卡扎菲逃离利比亚首都的黎波里后，各种政治力量一直在争取填补他留下的权力真空。
这些武装民兵、宗教领袖和地方名流面临的挑战是，先将推翻卡扎菲时用到的各种军事战略撇到一边，转而掌握他们并不熟悉的政治技巧，以便在利比亚从专制向民主过渡的时期加入临时政权。
利比亚临时总理马哈茂德•贾布里勒（Mahmoud Jibril）周四向记者证实了卡扎菲的死讯，但他并没有宣布武装冲突的正式结束，也没有就大选的时间表给出任何具体信息，利比亚的政治过渡进程将如何展开所充满的不确定性由此可见一斑。
图片：利比亚革命历程
奥巴马没有直接宣布卡扎菲的死亡，这反映出某种程度的不确定性。此前有多次报道说反对卡扎菲的士兵杀死或是俘虏了卡扎菲的家庭成员。
位于叙利亚、支持卡扎菲的Arrai电视台对有关卡扎菲死亡的报道只字未提，而是播放了歌颂卡扎菲及效忠卡扎菲的部队的爱国歌曲。
米苏拉塔军事委员会还公布了卡扎菲的儿子穆塔西姆•卡扎菲(Mutasim Gadhafi)的死讯。
该委员会还说，长期担任卡扎菲防务部长的尤尼斯(Abu Bakr Younis)被击毙。
美国国防部首席发言人柯比(John Kirby)说，北约(NATO)周四成功地空袭了逃离苏尔特的一伙人。一些新闻机构报道说，卡扎菲就在北约战机攻击的这队人中，暗示卡扎菲在逃离这队人时被发现。但柯比说，这队人的身份不明。
北约一位官员说，尽管西方官员无法证实卡扎菲是否已经死亡，北约最高司令斯塔夫里迪斯(James Stavridis)建议结束北约对利比亚空袭的道路已经打开。这位官员说，因为苏尔特已经攻陷，如果卡扎菲被击毙的消息属实，那么斯塔夫里迪斯很有可能提出这样的建议。
法国总统萨科奇(Nicolas Sarkozy)称，此事是利比亚民主进程中的重要一步。萨科奇是最早支持西方采取军事行动来阻止卡扎菲镇压反对派的人士之一。
萨科奇说，根据利比亚国家过渡委员会(National Transitional Council)的承诺，苏尔特的解放无疑标志着国家过渡委员会批准的、将在利比亚建立民主制度的进程的开启，利比亚各方都将可以参与其中，基本的自由将得到保障。
英国首相卡梅伦说，世界应该记住受卡扎菲迫害的人，并且说他对英国在结束卡扎菲统治中所发挥的作用感到自豪。
英国一直是北约军事行动贡献最大的国家之一，卡梅伦是北约行动最早的支持者之一。
MARGARET COKER
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Deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed in the city of his birth as Libyan forces overtook his last remaining stronghold, setting the stage for the country to reinvent itself after a 42-year dictatorship.
Gadhafi was shot and wounded in Sirte and died in an ambulance en route to Misrata, said Misrata Military Council spokesman Fathi Bashagha.
'Gadhafi is dead 100%. I saw his body with my own eyes,' Mr. Bashagha said. 'Gadhafi's death is the best news for Libya. The whole world should rejoice.'
Libyan officials were doing a DNA analysis of what they believe was Gadhafi's body to confirm its identity, according to Mr. Bashagha.
The Misrata council, which has been commanding the fighters leading the two-month siege of Sirte, reported around noon on Thursday that Gadhafi had been caught while their troops were conducting mopping-up operations around the coastal city. Shortly afterward, the council reported that he was dead.
The gains by supporters of Libya's transitional leaders appeared to mark the end of major combat in the eight-month armed uprising, including the possibly imminent end to the international air campaign that helped rebel forces defeat Col. Gadhafi's army.
News of Gadhafi's death sparked jubilant celebrations across Libya, as citizens absorbed the news that the man who ruled over them with an iron fist for most of the nation's modern history was gone.
Yet his death starts a new, uncertain chapter in Libya's revolution and poses fresh challenges to the various powers that have been vying to fill the vacuum left when Gadhafi was driven from the capital, Tripoli, in late August.
These armed militias, religious leaders and regional luminaries face the challenge of setting aside the military tactics that toppled the strongman and don unaccustomed political skills to join interim authorities in the transition from tyranny to democracy.
In a sign of the uncertainty of how Libya's political transition will unfold, Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril spoke to journalists to confirm Gadhafi's death on Thursday, but didn't announce a formal end to the armed conflict or give any detail about a timeline for elections.
U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the White House, said he had been informed by the Libyan government of Gadhafi's death. 'Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end….One of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more,' he said.
Mr. Obama didn't directly declare Gadhafi to be dead, reflecting a degree of uncertainty after multiple previous reports that anti-Gadhafi fighters had either killed or captured members of the former leader's family.
The pro-Gadhafi, Syria-based Arrai TV station said nothing about the reports of the former Libyan dictator's death. Instead it broadcast patriotic songs glorifying Gadhafi and troops loyal to him.
The Misrata Military Council also reported the death of Gadhafi's son Mutasim Gadhafi.
The military council, which has been commanding the forces fighting in Sirte, also said that Abu Bakr Younis, Gadhafi's longtime minister of defense, was killed.
The chief Pentagon spokesman, Capt. John Kirby, said that there was a successful North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrike Thursday on a convoy fleeing Sirte. Some news outlets reported that Gadhafi was in the convoy hit by NATO war planes─suggesting Gadhafi was found after fleeing the convoy. But Capt. Kirby said there was'no identification' of who was in the convoy.
Though Western military officials couldn't confirm Gadhafi's death, the path is open for NATO's supreme commander, Adm. James Stavridis, to recommend ending the alliance's air war over the country, said an alliance official. 'Because Sirte has fallen and if it is true that Gadhafi has been killed then it is very likely he will make the recommendation,' the official said.
In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy, an early supporter of Western military action to stop a Gadhafi crackdown on rebels, declared the events to be a 'major step' on the country's path to democracy.
'The liberation of Sirte must mark, in accordance with the commitments made by the National Transitional Council, the beginning of a process, approved by the NTC, that will establish a democratic system in Libya, in which all parties will have a place, and where fundamental freedom will be guaranteed,' he said.
U.K. Prime Minister Cameron said the world should remember Gadhafi's victims and that he was proud of the role Britain had played in bringing about the end of the Gadhafi regime.
The U.K. has been one of the largest contributors to the NATO campaign and Mr. Cameron one of its earliest supporters.
MARGARET COKER
Gadhafi was shot and wounded in Sirte and died in an ambulance en route to Misrata, said Misrata Military Council spokesman Fathi Bashagha.
'Gadhafi is dead 100%. I saw his body with my own eyes,' Mr. Bashagha said. 'Gadhafi's death is the best news for Libya. The whole world should rejoice.'
Libyan officials were doing a DNA analysis of what they believe was Gadhafi's body to confirm its identity, according to Mr. Bashagha.
The Misrata council, which has been commanding the fighters leading the two-month siege of Sirte, reported around noon on Thursday that Gadhafi had been caught while their troops were conducting mopping-up operations around the coastal city. Shortly afterward, the council reported that he was dead.
The gains by supporters of Libya's transitional leaders appeared to mark the end of major combat in the eight-month armed uprising, including the possibly imminent end to the international air campaign that helped rebel forces defeat Col. Gadhafi's army.
News of Gadhafi's death sparked jubilant celebrations across Libya, as citizens absorbed the news that the man who ruled over them with an iron fist for most of the nation's modern history was gone.
Yet his death starts a new, uncertain chapter in Libya's revolution and poses fresh challenges to the various powers that have been vying to fill the vacuum left when Gadhafi was driven from the capital, Tripoli, in late August.
These armed militias, religious leaders and regional luminaries face the challenge of setting aside the military tactics that toppled the strongman and don unaccustomed political skills to join interim authorities in the transition from tyranny to democracy.
In a sign of the uncertainty of how Libya's political transition will unfold, Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril spoke to journalists to confirm Gadhafi's death on Thursday, but didn't announce a formal end to the armed conflict or give any detail about a timeline for elections.
U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the White House, said he had been informed by the Libyan government of Gadhafi's death. 'Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end….One of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more,' he said.
Mr. Obama didn't directly declare Gadhafi to be dead, reflecting a degree of uncertainty after multiple previous reports that anti-Gadhafi fighters had either killed or captured members of the former leader's family.
The pro-Gadhafi, Syria-based Arrai TV station said nothing about the reports of the former Libyan dictator's death. Instead it broadcast patriotic songs glorifying Gadhafi and troops loyal to him.
The Misrata Military Council also reported the death of Gadhafi's son Mutasim Gadhafi.
The military council, which has been commanding the forces fighting in Sirte, also said that Abu Bakr Younis, Gadhafi's longtime minister of defense, was killed.
The chief Pentagon spokesman, Capt. John Kirby, said that there was a successful North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrike Thursday on a convoy fleeing Sirte. Some news outlets reported that Gadhafi was in the convoy hit by NATO war planes─suggesting Gadhafi was found after fleeing the convoy. But Capt. Kirby said there was'no identification' of who was in the convoy.
Though Western military officials couldn't confirm Gadhafi's death, the path is open for NATO's supreme commander, Adm. James Stavridis, to recommend ending the alliance's air war over the country, said an alliance official. 'Because Sirte has fallen and if it is true that Gadhafi has been killed then it is very likely he will make the recommendation,' the official said.
In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy, an early supporter of Western military action to stop a Gadhafi crackdown on rebels, declared the events to be a 'major step' on the country's path to democracy.
'The liberation of Sirte must mark, in accordance with the commitments made by the National Transitional Council, the beginning of a process, approved by the NTC, that will establish a democratic system in Libya, in which all parties will have a place, and where fundamental freedom will be guaranteed,' he said.
U.K. Prime Minister Cameron said the world should remember Gadhafi's victims and that he was proud of the role Britain had played in bringing about the end of the Gadhafi regime.
The U.K. has been one of the largest contributors to the NATO campaign and Mr. Cameron one of its earliest supporters.
MARGARET COKER
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